The Ogun Police Command has advised truck drivers plying Lagos-Abeokuta expressway to report their grievances to authorities instead of causing gridlock for motorists.
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun Police Public Relations Officer, gave the advice on Saturday in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, Ogun.
Oyeyemi said that the drivers should always look for a better ways of reporting their grievances to the authority whenever they had any conflict with any of the traffic agencies.
Oyeyemi, however, said that the police and others security agencies were on ground to clear the gridlock on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
A NAN correspondent who visited Ewekoro in Ogun on Saturday gathered that several motorists and passenger were stranded on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
It was also gathered that a conflict broke out between the drivers and the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) that towed two of the drivers’ trucks  to Abeokuta.
The drivers later used two of their trucks to block the major Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, which resulted in serious gridlocks from Ifo to Ewekoro.
One of the drivers who spoke, pleading anonymity, said that this was not the first time the TRACE officials would be towing their vehicles to their office.
Mr Dare Ogunrinde, a commercial driver, described the development as worrisome.
Ogunrinde said that he left Lagos at about 5.30 a.m. and he had not got to Abeokuta, noting that he spent more than four hours in the gridlock.
Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi,Ogun TRACE Public Relations Officer said that they had given directive to the drivers not to park indiscriminately.
Akinbiyi said that the matter had been resolved and the keys of the two trucks belonging had been returned to the drivers.(NAN)